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Swift , it is true , re- garded the imagination with the same hostility that he did the passions , but in this he displayed a far more austere doctrine than did his representative contemporaries . If the latter sought in reason a check ...
Swift , it is true , re- garded the imagination with the same hostility that he did the passions , but in this he displayed a far more austere doctrine than did his representative contemporaries . If the latter sought in reason a check ...
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they did not believe that they were ostracizing imagination ; if in their poetry they declined to ' speak out , ' if they avoided giving voice to their individual moods , that was because the poet , tempering imagination with reason ...
they did not believe that they were ostracizing imagination ; if in their poetry they declined to ' speak out , ' if they avoided giving voice to their individual moods , that was because the poet , tempering imagination with reason ...
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Fancy or imagination is the inventive faculty , without which poetry cannot come to exist . But , as Dryden wrote , ' imagi- nation in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless , that like an high - ranging spaniel , it must have clogs ...
Fancy or imagination is the inventive faculty , without which poetry cannot come to exist . But , as Dryden wrote , ' imagi- nation in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless , that like an high - ranging spaniel , it must have clogs ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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